Washington, D.C. – This morning, U.S. Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), joined Fox News’ “Faulkner Focus” with Harris Faulkner. The Senator discussed how Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are continuing to hold the American people hostage with their ridiculous and unreasonable demands for illegal aliens.
Senator Mullin continues to keep the American people updated through his social media videos that can be found on X, Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok.
The full interview can be found here.
On Chuck Schumer continuing to hold the American people hostage:
“I’m also on the Appropriations Committee so I’ve been involved in these conversations all along the way. The fact is, there’s plenty of Senate Democrats that want to vote with Republicans to open the government back up. What they can’t do is get past their leader. They elected Chuck Schumer to be the leader of the Democrat party in the Senate, and he is literally scared to death of his own elections coming up in 2028… this is what happens when you have a career politician who’s been in office longer than I’ve been out of high school, and he continues to be worried about his next election cycle, in this case, afraid of AOC.”
On President Trump doing what’s necessary to take care of the American people:
“If [Schumer] would just simply let his members vote the way they want to… we can reopen the government in two and a half hours, just like that. And for everybody, all these left reporters, that are concerned about the way that President Trump is going to operate the government, well, keep in mind, the Democrats are the ones that shut it down. They knew when they do that, they secede the power that Congress has to the President of the United States to make sure that he is still taking care of the American people and taking care of the priorities.”
On the Democrats prioritizing reelection:
“If they were concerned the way that he was going to handle it, Harris, they would just not ever went to a shutdown. So, it’s kind of one of these things that you got thinking, ‘Well, which one are you concerned about, your reelection, or the American people that you talk about,’ and all they’re doing is talking about it. They’re not actually concerned about it.”
On the One Big, Beautiful Bill rescinding free health care for illegals:
“What has happened here is that Chucky Schumer is going to the floor, and either he is lying, flat out lying to the American people, or he’s not running his team that’s drawing the policy up. So, either he knows the truth, or he’s not listening to what’s actually being written.”
“Because without question, it’s easy to see that they strike the language out of the One Big, Beautiful Bill that doesn’t allow those that came in to this country illegal, which was reclassified by the Biden administration by saying that they got paroled, which they paroled 98% of the 20+ million individuals that came across the border illegally… He just did it by an executive order. What the One Big, Beautiful Bill did is say you’re not eligible for taxpayer health care anymore.”
On what the American people are concerned about:
“A lot of them are confused about Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security payments. First of all, keep in mind Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security payments are mandatory spending. We’re fighting over discretionary spending, so two separate buckets. There is no disruption of Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security payments.”
On the Democrats playing politics with the paychecks of military members and federal workers:
“And then you have the those that have their loved ones that are in the military, want to know if their paychecks went out. Yes, all their paychecks went out on the first of October. They got paid in full. All federal employees got paid yesterday. What’s going to be the issue is if the Democrats refuse to open the government and continue to hold the American people hostage for their political purposes, come the 15th and 16th of October, there won’t be any money there for the paychecks to go out. So, when you explain that to people, they understand it.”
On the unity of the Republican Party:
“… the Speaker and Leader Thune, which are great leaders for the Republican Party, and we’re all walking together with the White House. I mean, we are locked together. The Republican Party are one body walking together in the same boat, rowing in the same direction for the American people.”
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